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ENTERPRISE ANDROID™
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
CHAPTER 1 Developing for Android Tablets and Smartphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CHAPTER 2 The Relational Model and SQLite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
CHAPTER 3 Android Database Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CHAPTER 4 Content Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
CHAPTER 5 REST, Content Providers, Concurrency,
Networking, and Sync Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
CHAPTER 6 Service Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
CHAPTER 7 Mobile and the Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
CHAPTER 8 Complex Device-Based Data: Android Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
CHAPTER 9 Generic Data Synchronization:
Project Migrate and the WebData API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
CHAPTER 10 WebData Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
CHAPTER 11 Building Human Interfaces for Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
CHAPTER 12 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
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Enterprise Android™
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Enterprise Android™
PROGRAMMING ANDROID DATABASE
APPLICATIONS FOR THE ENTERPRISE
Zigurd Mednieks
G. Blake Meike
Laird Dornin
Zane Pan
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Enterprise Android™: Programming Android Database Applications for the Enterprise
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To Maija and Charles
—Zigurd Mednieks
To Jerry Meike, my inspiration for writing a book...
and a lot more
—G. Blake Meike
To Norah and Claire, my girls
—Laird Dornin
To Zhengfang
—Zane Pan
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